same. it happens to me all the time on HN.

on one hand, i feel like this is a text-book example of the Bader-Meinhoff illusion [0].

but... there's an actual causal mechanism that could drive it.

show an interesting article to the HN crowd -> some subset of HN readers are inspired to go down a wikipedia rabbit hole and post some cool thing they found back on HN -> people that saw the original interesting post will not only see the related followup post, but they'll upvote it and cause even MORE to see it

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion

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NobodyNada 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is definitely an actual phenomenon on HN -- someone posts something interesting and it gets a bunch of HNers to go down the rabbit hole together.

A couple weeks ago there was one about leeches:

"You shouldn't salt a leech that's sucking your blood" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45001005

"How Leeches Made Their Comeback" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45045235

"Leeches and the Legitimacy of Folk-Medicine" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45009629

"This is my brain on leeches" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037109

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temp0826 3 days ago | parent [-]

Ah yes. We should have an annual Leech Day to commemorate.

(HN feature request- community calendar)

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xenophonf 3 days ago | parent [-]

I hereby declare August 28 as Leech Day. Everybody save up your favorite weird HN posts for the year, and we'll compile them in an annual celebration of all the nerdsniping that goes on here.

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mcny 2 days ago | parent [-]

For all I know there is already a /calendar because I didn't know about /best for a long time.

	▲	OhMeadhbh 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		It is definitely a delightful thing to learn about dimly illuminated corners of the human experience. I enjoy learning about new, weird things almost as much as I enjoy seeing the glee with which people chat about them.

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YeGoblynQueenne 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

No reason to speculate. I certainly do that sort of thing: I read a bit of news, wonder about some of the details, look them up (on wikipedia or anywhere) and then post an in-depth article I find on the subject to HN. Usually I do that after someone's posted the main news article on HN, but sometimes I manage to ninja the ninjas. Some times the in-depth article is more interesting, or more HN-interesting, than the related news article so the news don't get posted on HN at all.

Anyway if I do that, there must be others who do so too, and probably not just a few.

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01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm pretty sure that article about online poker was posted because someone saw my "86 million is alarmingly less than 52 factoiral" comment. Glad they did, now I have it bookmarked again